Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh was the latest politician to turn down a bid for reelection next year. On Monday, Bayh explained, “There’s too much partisanship and not enough progress—too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving.”

On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden said he could see why so many Americans were angry. “I’ve never seen it this dysfunctional,” said Biden, a career politician who has worked in Washington for nearly 40 years. “Washington, right now, is broken.”

This is how many leading voices now view the system of governance in Washington—as broken and dysfunctional. And with America being besieged by problems, this is not a good time for a crisis in leadership.

Earlier this week, the New York Times picked up on this theme, pointing to Washington’s deficit spending as Exhibit A on its long list of insoluble problems (emphasis mine throughout):

After decades of warnings that budgetary profligacy, escalating health-care costs and an aging population would lead to a day of fiscal reckoning, economists and the nation’s foreign creditors say that moment is approaching faster than expected, hastened by a deep recession that cost trillions of dollars in lost tax revenues and higher spending for safety-net programs.

Over the next decade, Social Security, Medicare and interest payments alone will devour 80 percent of America’s annual revenue. The crushing weight of debt, wrote the Associated Press, threatens to overwhelm everything Washington does.

And this comes at a time when the political system is more polarized than ever. The Times added, “The main urgency for both parties seems to be about pinning blame on the other, before November’s elections, for deficits now averaging $1 trillion a year, the largest since World War ii relative to the size of the economy.”

The day of reckoning is just about here and America’s dysfunctional government is making matters worse. The Times quotes one financial adviser as saying, “I used to think it would take a global financial crisis to get both parties to the table, but we just had one.”

He now wonders if America is even governable.

“There isn’t a single sitting member of Congress—not one—that doesn’t know exactly where we’re headed,” one former senator said in a telephone interview on Tuesday (ibid.). Perhaps this explains why more of America’s leaders appear to be throwing in the towel.

The Prophet Isaiah describes modern-day Israel, which includes the United States and Britain, as being simultaneously cursed by national calamities and childish leadership. “The Lord will cut off Jerusalem’s and Judah’s food and water supplies,” the prophet warned (Isaiah 3:1; Living Bible). “And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them” (verse 4).

Our nations fall apart at the same time we are being led by weak and childish leaders. What a deadly combination! It’s prophesied in your Bible. As is plainly recorded in Isaiah 30:8, this prophecy is for the end time.

Notice what else Isaiah had to say about our present-day political system: “And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand” (Isaiah 3:5-6).

The problems will get so bad, God says, that no one will want to rule! “For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory” (verse 8). Here, God speaks of the ruin of our nations as if it’s already happened.

Now, even some politicians and commentators can see that the system is irreparably damaged. Some leaders are even stepping aside—allowing others to oversee the final days of our inevitable ruin.

Of course, there are many Republicans (just as there were Democrats a little more than a year ago) who are now salivating at the prospect of returning to power this November. But as prophecy tells, they will soon join the ranks of their congressional colleagues on the left and run for cover from the political fallout of a system that is already broken.